2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in Rhode Island

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 38,020 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 159 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,500 and $28,790 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public health programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in Rhode Island

#1

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$26,775 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - Providence. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s public health students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at JWU Providence, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The yearly cost to attend JWU Providence is $26,775 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Public Health students.

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#2

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,392 Average Net Price

$36,221 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 53 bachelors’s public health degrees to qualified students.

Brown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Brown University is $29,392 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Public Health students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Public Health at Brown

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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